More on Cosby
 
Here's a weird rebuke of Cosby, criticizing him personally.  I'm not sure how I feel about arguments that take this shape - a personality makes a public statement about a public issue and then opens themselves up to personal criticism - "Oh, they're saying this because of this and this," and so on.  Is that being fair?  Or simply a convenient way to dismiss a point?  I mean, we're all human, right?
 
Who really gives a shit about all of it?  Cosby is OLD.  No one pays attention to him as a public figure anymore.  But he's respectable because he's old, as John Huston says in Chinatown.  I think the best anti-Cosby argument is that he's spouting off because no one is paying attention to him, to get himself in the headlines again. 
 
But who cares?  He's saying a simple truth about kids bsing around and not working hard and looking at a poor future because parents and teacher and schools and kids themselves are  too lazy to work hard and make opportunities for themselves.  He's right.  Can't we just get over the fact that the world and powers that be don't have complete control over one's own choices...even in more repressive societies than our own, people are people and have certain options.
 
I dunno, I don't even care enough to write about it anymore.  Criticize away...